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Brian Jacques
Life Time
15 June 1939 - 5 February 2011
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Brian Jakes is a great storyteller. He was born and raised in Liverpool, England and has changed many professions. He was a sailor and port loader, clown and truck driver, worked as a postmaster and police officer, was engaged in boxing, led a folk music group, led his own program on BBC radio. He began his literary career as a screenwriter and managed to get recognition, but it turned out to be more interesting for him to write for children. Books of the series "Redwall" brought Jakes the title
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Brian Jakes is a great storyteller. He was born and raised in Liverpool, England and has changed many professions. He was a sailor and port loader, clown and truck driver, worked as a postmaster and police officer, was engaged in boxing, led a folk music group, led his own program on BBC radio. He began his literary career as a screenwriter and managed to get recognition, but it turned out to be more interesting for him to write for children. Books of the series "Redwall" brought Jakes the title of one of the most popular children's writers in the world.
Brian Jakes says that in his spare time he likes to walk with his Scottish Terrier Teddy and solve puzzle crossword puzzles, and his favorite writers are Daniel Defoe, Robert Lewis Stevenson, Thomas Malory, Arthur Conan-Doyle and Kenneth Graham.
He died on February 5, 2011.